KULDIGA TECHNOLOGY AND TOURISM TECHNICAL SCHOOL
THE CENTRE OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
KULDIGA TECHNOLOGY AND TOURISM TECHNICAL SCHOOL
The centre of professional competences ”Kuldiga Technology and tourism technical school” is a state technical school, founded in 1989, situated in a small and old town – Kuldiga in the western part of Latvia. There are 540 students and 75 staff.
School works with students and adults in various curriculums full time, part time, long distance learning, lifelong learning and informal learning.
Since 2002 the School has been working with disabled people (deaf and dumb), too, who are integrated among other students.
After having graduated elementary school (age of 16 years) or secondary school (age of 19) students can study programs of car mechanics, car diagnostics, logistics, furniture design and production, restoration, specialist of timber CNC, specialists of catering and restaurant services, chefs, confectionary, waiters/waitresses, SPA specialists, manicure and pedicure specialists, ecotourism specialists, tourism information administrators and tourism commerce.
Each program has a laboratory or a workshop where students acquire professional skills and competences. School has a well equipped canteen where students can train.
There are included innovations or additional competences in each curriculum what does not offer other schools in this country: Volvo Truck – in the car mechanics’ program, CNC – furniture designing, AMADEUS international reservation system – tourism service, R-keeper – catering and confectionary.
Since 2010 the School is a member of (AEHT) Association of European hotels and tourism schools (international code LV04) and has already won several golden, silver and bronze medals during international competitions among the schools from more than 34 countries – in each of nominations in cooking, confectionary, waiters and tourism commerce.
Since 2012 the school is the UNESCO Latvia associated school.
School has been working in different international projects and programmes since 1994 – Leonardo da Vinci, Grundtvig, Socrates, Comenius, Youth, Bosch, Visby, Erasmus, Erasmus +, Arion, Nordplus and others. School has partnership with schools or enterprises in Lithuania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Scotland, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Russia and Bulgaria.
School has the students’ choir, folk dance group and de file group.
Our furniture designing student during competition of wooden engraving sculptures.
Address : Liepajas street 31, Kuldiga, LATVIA, LV 3301
Phone/fax 371 6 3324082
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